I was thinking about taking a rest day today, but I ended up being a meat-head (as my buddy Jeff says).  So, instead, I got up at 4:45am and went to the YMCA for some swimming.  I got in the pool at 5:45am and did 1700 yards.

  • Warm up 1oo yards
  • Main Swim 1500 yards
  • Cool down 100 yards

I was out of the pool about 6:25am, showered up and headed to work.

During the warm up and cool down I practiced bilateral breathing every 3 strokes.  During the main swim I occasionally did some bilateral breathing.  Instead of bilateral breathing every 3 strokes, however, I would do a length of the pool breathing on the right side and the return length breathing on the left side.  Most of the main swim, however, was done one-sided breathing on the right side.  Breathing on the left is just not comfortable for me.  I would really like to master bilateral breathing.  However, I actually swim faster doing one-sided breathing.  I am sure I could swim just as fast or faster with bilateral breathing if can master the technique.

During the main swim I had to really concentrate on form.  The arm workout that I did yesterday affected the swim today.  I am just getting back into swimming, biking and running (no I haven’t committed to running another triathlon).  I have been doing P90X, Insanity, i30x5 and Tabata type of workouts for the past 3 months so I need to get used to the multisport training.  If I am not committing to another triathlon, then why the heck am I siwmming, biking and running.  Well, because I enjoy ot.  So for me its swim, bike, run and lift.

I wanted to do a lifting session today, however, I got busy after work and let life get in the way.

You know how they say, “no pain, no gain”?  Here is the “pain”…